Every Monday we post some thoughts in our Perriams Pacesetter, containing fresh thoughts for the week, the weekend just gone, and a bit of left field. Click below to read.
Perriams Pacesetter – 11 May 2026
Blog
11th May 2026
GEM
If you go to our website and click on ‘News’ you will see who won our newsletter competition with the question “what’s the one burning question you’ve always wanted to ask your accountant but never got around to asking”?
OF INTEREST
48% of those aged 65-69 in NZ are still working.
Who said anything about a retirement age of 65?
SPOTLIGHT
Hope all the Mums out there were loved and looked after yesterday.
SPORTIFY
Can Moana Pasifika be saved by the consortium of ex All Blacks? Let’s hope so, or will it be back to the future where it all started out as the super 10?
TOPICAL
The retirement age. What should it be?
More to the point, why is Winston Peters holding the country to ransom on this when all leading economists, professors and highly influential business people and political commentators are saying that we have to increase the age.
OPINION
THE MARKETS
It would seem that the US markets are oblivious to the Middle East wars as share prices of AI stock continue on their run north. Of particular note, last week Rocket Lab shares went up over US $100.
OCR 2.25% ↓ November 2025 CPI 3.1% ↑ January 2026 Unemployment 5.4% ↑ December 2025 House Price Movement 2.3% ↑ July 2024 Rent Price Movement 4.3% ↑ July 2024
Only 227 days to go until Christmas!
PERRIAMS POWER RANKINGS – 11 May 2026
Each week we announce Perriams “Game Changers” for the week.
1.The Crusaders horses – They’re back!
The people of Canterbury have spoken.
2. Rocket Lab shares. Made it to US $100 on Friday. 🚀
3. Despite all the gloom out there in our economy our KiwiSaver balances seemingly are untethered from the chaos. The month of April has gone down as one of the strongest months of global shares in the past 30 years.
This should make your week! 🙂
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